Food inspectors found the live rodent behind a freezer while a dead oriental cockroach was in the middle of the food preparation room alongside mouse droppings. The routine inspection also revealed there was also no hand wash basin or antibacterial surface cleaner.

Staff were not wearing protective clothing and no food safety management system was in place.

The shop was immediately shut down after the check-up by the council’s environmental health team last August. But it re-opened the next-day after a deep clean.